EmCatz Posted May 11, 2014 Report Share Posted May 11, 2014 Hello,I have a HP Pavilion Laptop I use windows 8.1 I got this at Christmas and my Recovery D: drive is almost full, I have absolutely no idea what to do, can anyone provide me a simple step by step guide on how to empty/clear this drive, I've tried Disk Clean Up and my rubbish bin is empty... Thank you all in advance. Em Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belatucadrus Posted May 11, 2014 Report Share Posted May 11, 2014 The recovery drive D should contain all that HP deem necessary to return the laptop to factory condition, you should leave it alone. As long as it has room for the recovery files that's all it needs. Don't add anything or remove anything, messing around with it could result in it not working should you be unfortunate enough to need it.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmCatz Posted May 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2014 Ok, so what happens once its full? :) thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted May 11, 2014 Report Share Posted May 11, 2014 What do you mean "once its full"? Nothing should be added or deleted from that partition; it's your RECOVERY disk! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belatucadrus Posted May 12, 2014 Report Share Posted May 12, 2014 HP created the recovery partition to hold the recovery files and that's all, they knew how much was going there so there was no point in allocating any more space as it'll never be used, that's why it looks Full .As nothing should ever be added the free space on D should always be constant. If you've been storing files in Recovery D find someplace else for them and leave it alone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmCatz Posted May 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2014 Ahhhh I see.... So at the moment it says 2.31 GB free of 23.3 GB and I was worried this was beginning to fill up and I was trying to find out now before it does what I should do to avoid it filling, but you guys are saying that my laptop comes with the drive already partly full? Will this always stay at 2.31 GB free of 23.3 GB? Thank you very very much.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted May 12, 2014 Report Share Posted May 12, 2014 That Recovery drive should stay the same all the time from the day you got it until it dies :)(unless you manually put anything on it there for some reason - not recommended at all) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmCatz Posted May 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2014 Thank you everybody :) - Great forum! I've marked the last answer as solved but you all had the best answer! Tx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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